SlopCodeBench 10/2026 – Opus 5.5, Astra wins overall, xhigh considered harmful

Re:SlopCodeBench 10/2026 – Opus 5.5, Astra wins overall, xhi... by CharlieDigital on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @06:46AM (#50178757)

Yes, have done cross plat plan review. But why it works so well with Paseo is that it's automatic and multi-turn (agents kind of "discuss" (I say "kind of" because agents don't really discuss like you or I would with short, multi-turn speak-listen-pivot-repeat).

Work tokens are severely limited to the extent that if I used Sonnet 5.5 for implementation, I'd be out 2h into a session (Team 5x). +$400/mo. at API rates on OpenAI. So Haiku + Luna it is. There is no other way this is even usable for agentic dev at work. Works fine for people who multi-turn with a single agent.

Personal accounts I run the $17 Anthropic plan + $100 Codex Pro + DeepSeek. It's insane how much this stretches with this setup.

Maybe the crux here is how hands on you are with your sessions. As I've moved more hands off, I'm relying on other agents to take my place by embedding my heuristics into their config.

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Re:SlopCodeBench 10/2026 – Opus 5.5, Astra wins overall, xhi... by user43928 on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @07:22AM (#50179050)

It's automatic and multi-turn by default.

I've had an instruction to review the code with "claude -p" in place around the time GPT-5.5 released. I think it has served me well.

If I recall correctly it was before subagents were a thing. Even back then it was already automatic and would on its own request follow-up reviews or arbitrate a plan file if asked.

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